Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:56, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Its all the things that people use Exceptions for; since it allows for bugs 
> to be made without creating non-sane conditions, which allows creating 
> software bug-free the first time around.
> You are right that c can do this; but most developers just don't because its 
> so damn hard!
> 
> How often is a malloc done without a check if it succeeded?  Do a grep to 
> find out, same with file-open and all those nice little problems.

Y'know, reading hackerlab would be a very good start for you, as you
appear to be talking from a position of ignorance [of tla's internals]
rather than one of knowledge.

Oh, and as for exceptions being 'all that' ? Exceptions don't prevent
bad state in objects, they don't prevent bugs, all they do is ensure
that cleanup routines have a chance at trapping abnormal events within
the same process.

Rob

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